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Day 62 - Harvard Classics - 90 Day Challenge

Sep 5: Darwin's ORIGIN OF SPECIES

Survival of the Fittest

Just as the individual has a definite length of life, so have speciesa limited duration. The progress and transition of the world,Darwin declares, will see the extinction of certain variants ofhuman life.

Sep 6: Carlyle's SIR WALTER SCOTT

The Pride of All Scotchmen

Many sons of Scotland have striven eagerly for the great placeheld by Sir Walter Scott. Carlyle describes the qualities that combinedto make him the idol of his people and the master of historicalromance.

Sep 8: Helmholtz's ICE AND GLACIERS

When Europe Lay Under Ice

There was a time when the snow fell and did not melt in summer.Then from the frozen north there descended huge massesof ice that covered northern Europe and most of North America.Glaciers reveal a new world to us.